merging object from 2 sources

[jmls]

let's say that my nconf is configured so :

 nconf.argv()
       .env('_')
       .file({ file: path.resolve(path.join(__dirname,'./config.json')) });

and I have this in the json file

{  "tokens": { "abc": "foo" } } 

within my app, I also do

config.set('tokens:def',"bar")

I thought that I could then say

config.get("tokens")

and get a merged object. But I don't :(

I need to be able to merge these options as I work in several environments and each one has a different config in the .json file

Is there a way of doing this ?

[mansona]

I'm getting the impression that this should work 🤔 it seems similar to the semantics of how it works with files and overrides. I would suggest writing a test similar to this to show this failing case: https://github.com/indexzero/nconf/pull/255

[askdesigners]

can confirm that in 2019 this does not indeed work